Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great importance. There must also always be in both a constant concern for increasing knowledge. But it is only as an individual learns first, in the College, to give himself to the spirit of learning that graduate and professional training, indeed the whole activity of adult life, find proper definition and exercise. Indeed, though it may seem extravagant to some, to me it seems not too much to say that the transforming and quickening task of the College is almost the very since qua non of civilization itself...
...activity of the Faculty and the interaction of faculty and students have other needs of fresh support. The Chemistry Department has again outgrown its facilities. The same can be said of Astronomy. But it is not only the natural sciences which have been experiencing vigorous development. No proper physical facilities have yet been provided for the Department of Social Relations, a growing field at Harvard which has been of increasing importance to undergraduates during the past decade. And this lively department is only slightly less adequately provided with endowed professorships than are several other areas. Indeed, the future...
Another factor in making music come to life is the use of the proper sized auditorium. In Paine Hall, Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 no. 4 was not dwarfed accoustically as it might have been in Sanders Theater. Senturia drove his strings to the kind of relentless rhythm that can make Baroque music so exciting. While the accuracy of the violins was not quite 100 percent, the counterpoint was clear and the pacing excellent...
...Peak. Last week, like a stormy throwback to another century. Maria Callas swept into New York. She arrived, as is proper for prima donnas, in triumph. Raised in Manhattan's upper west side, Maria Callas had left it as a fat, unhappy child of 14. She returned svelte, successful, the wife of an Italian millionaire, a diva more widely hated by her colleagues and more wildly acclaimed by her public than any other living singer. She returned to open the season next week in Bellini's Norma at the Metropolitan-which only eleven years ago just could...
...younger son is a BBC television personality whose public pitch is heart-tugging interviews with the wronged; privately, he is enamored of a blackmailing, homosexual spiv. Gerald's elder son is a humorless business tycoon who keeps two sets of emotional books: in one, a grim and proper wife; in the other, a toothsome, pseudo-bohemian mistress. This illicit affair is almost a parody...